THE LIES OF THE SERPENT Compiled by Rev. Nelson Parkenson, Jr. False Witnessing of "Jehovah's Witnesses" The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, better known throughout the world as Jehovah's Witnesses, today presents a challenge to the Christian Church, which informed Christians ignore at the peril of millions of souls. DID YOU KNOW One of the most totalitarian systems of this century is sweeping the world, systematically brain washing millions of young people and turning them into a vast anti-Christian organization. It is our prayer that a careful and prayerful reading of this warning will enable all to see that "Jehovah's Witnesses" are "just another cult" but something which our Lord's people MUST consider as anti-Christian. "A faithful witness will not lie: But a false witness will utter lies" Proverbs 14:5. "A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies." Proverbs 14:25. All scripture is given "by inspiration of God, and is profitable for DOCTRINE for REPROOF, for CORRECTION and for INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS." DID YOU KNOW That a tremendous world-wide religious organization is being built up and that this organization NOW has over 1,000,000 members and more are being added daily? "But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world (Satan) hath blinded, the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." II Corinthians 4:3-4. DID YOU KNOW That Jehovah's Witnesses call themselves "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom" but that they make no effort to convict people of sin nor to bring them to repentance nor to lead them to Christ as sinners to the Throne of Grace? DID YOU KNOW That this organization is under the absolute control of the Watch Tower Bible Tract Society of Brooklyn, New York? DID YOU KNOW That this international organization considers itself superior to all governments, calling itself the New World Society and publishing its own Bible which it calls the New World Translation? DID YOU KNOW That the members of this New World Society are now walking the streets of YOUR town and knocking on the doors of your neighbors and calling themselves by the name of "Jehovah's Witnesses." DID YOU KNOW That the Jehovah's Witnesses have repeatedly changed their name, having called themselves "Millennial Dawn", "Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society", "People's Pulpit Association", "Bible Student's Association" and "The Brooklyn Tabernacle." Then in July, 1931 , J.F. Rutherford "revealed" that the promise which GOD gave the Jews in Isaiah 62:2 "thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name" referred to themselves, and the name which he said God gave them is in Isaiah 43:10 "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord" and that the Jehovah's Witnesses are now being conditioned to accept another new name -" The New World Society? DID YOU KNOW That 500,000 Witnesses are energetically buying, peddling and selling a book called "Jehovah's Witnesses - The New World Society" in every community in America and that this book is a clever, one-sided salestalk for these antichristian theologians who now call themselves by the name of Jehovah's Witnesses? DID YOU KNOW That those "Witnesses" which call at your door are called "publishers" and that they have all been through a brain-washing indoctrination program which has implanted in their minds the one idea and that is to gain "converts" for their Organization, to make the Organization strong and powerful and to gain prestige for the Organization? The strength of this world-wide Organization thereby gives them a feeling of importance. They claim humility but they think the truth has been revealed especially to them and they have no sympathy, patience, nor tolerance for church-going Christians? DID YOU KNOW That their motive for going out into all the world is NOT to baptize men into the Body of Jesus Christ but to initiate them into the "Theocracy" - the NEW WORLD SOCIETY? It is NOT to teach them to do all things whatsoever Jesus Christ commanded His Disciples to do but to force them, as slaves, to perform Watch Tower service, to buy and sell books, to make more "converts" who will buy and sell more books to make more "converts" who will buy and sell more books? DID YOU KNOW That these Watch Tower slaves are now being multiplied by the tens of thousands throughout all the world, definitely building a WORLD RELIGION with their twisted, deceiving NEW WORLD BIBLE as their "sword" and all operating under one head? DID YOU KNOW That every brain-washed "Witness" who comes to your door and the doors of your own relatives and friends, came to that state of mind through innocently entering a "seven-step program; (1) Purchase of a book or magazine (2) Accepting a "back call" (3) Allowing a Book Study in their home (4) Attending an area study (5) Attending a Watch Tower Study (6) Attending a "publishing" or a service meeting (7) Watch Tower Baptism! Now they are full fledged slaves of the Watch Tower, thinking only what the Watch Tower wants them to think, going where the Watch Tower wants them to go, willing to be rotten-egged if that will bring publicity to the Organization. They are now willing to go to jail for draft-dodging in order to advertise to the world that they are for "peace," refusing to ever salute the flag of their nation, refusing to allow their children to participate in patriotic exercises, and willing to stand long hours on hot street corners or trudge from door to door. To lead men and women to God? No! But to build an all-powerful international religious Organization which they call the "Theocracy" but which is actually anti-Christian? WHY IS ALL THIS IMPORTANT TO YOU NOW? "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? HE IS ANTICHRIST, that denieth the Father and the Son." I John 2:22 DID YOU KNOW That unless they repent, there is no salvation for those who continue to deny the physical resurrection of the body of Jesus Christ? Jehovah's Witnesses deny the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. If Thou salt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS (confess that He is what He represents Himself to be - the Savior of your soul) and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. - Romans 10:9 Consequently all who deny the physical Resurrection of Jesus Christ are lost! The following is a number of quotations taken from the Jehovah's Witnesses book studies. Included is the scripture showing these teachings to be in error. ERROR l. Christ was created. (CREATION p. 17) 2. The doctrine of a burning hell where the wicked are tortured eternally after death cannot be true . . . (Op. cit., p. 80). 3. Christ never was, and never will be, God. (CREATION, P. 58) 4. There is no authority in the word of God for the doctrine of the Trinity of the Godhead. (STUDIES, P. 169) There is no Trinity, Jehovah-God is everything. (RECONCILIATION p. 136) This doctrine is "of the devil" (LET GOD BE TRUE, p. 82) TRUTH 1. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All Things were made by Him. John 1:1, 2, 3a. 2. And in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Luke 16:23 3. "Behold a Virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US." Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:32, 33; John 1:14; I John 5:20; John 5:23. 4. Jesus came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him and at the same moment the Father's voice came from Heaven saying "This is my beloved SON, in whom I am well pleased." Matthew 3:17b. 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